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Elizabeth Oriel

Elizabeth Oriel is a conservation biologist, currently studying positive models of coexistence between humans and marine mammals. Previous research has been focused on animal welfare and climate change adaptation.

ViewsSaturday, May 02, 2015What Ails this Country? Bernie Sanders Will Ask You“What is government if not a relationship with the people?”–resident of Concord, Massachusetts “I think the amount of influence I have, or anyone has, as a member of the public basically comes from free discourse.” –resident of Concord, Massachusetts Bernie Sanders’ 2012 campaign in Vermont for US...Read more

ViewsMonday, August 18, 2014Towards a New Co-Existence: On Reframing Our Ecological Crises How we think about and talk about ecological crises and our role in them form the structures of our responses. This is why thought forms, concepts, frames as George Lakoff calls them, are all central, form the crux, of attempts to protect species and the planet’s systems. The current predominant...Read more

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